Safety Culture Excellence

Below is a list of public events where Terry Mathis and I will be speaking in January and February 2010.

IADC Health, Safety, Environment & Training Conference & Exhibition

Topic: Sustainable Safety Cultures

Date: 27 January 2010

Speaker: Shawn M. Galloway, President & Chief Operating Officer, ProAct Safety

http://www.iadc.org/index.html

Abstract: Many companies are focused on creating an improved safety culture and have achieved success in doing so. You may have heard of the book by Marshal Goldsmith titled, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” and the same holds true for maintaining a safety culture. In this session we will discuss ways to continuously increase the positive factor of your safety culture and ensure that you don’t fall into traps that negatively affect your success. 

American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) SeminarFest 2010

Topic: #50 Training Supervisors to Become Safety Coaches

Date: 19 February 2010

Instructor: Terry Mathis, CEO, ProAct Safety

http://www.asse.org/education/

Abstract: In this seminar, you will learn to turn supervisors, who are often an obstacle to safety, into safety coaches who can identify and modify the behaviors that cause accidents. The coaching skills taught will also help improve many other areas of worker performance and build supportive relationships between supervisors and workers. Learn to:

·         Train supervisors on coaching skills they can use to assist workers in becoming more safe and more productive

·         Motivate supervisors to participate in safety efforts and make it an important part of their job description

·         Focus safety efforts on a list of precautions that are within the power of supervisors and workers to control

American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) SeminarFest 2010

Topic: #46 Balanced Scorecard Approach to Determine Safety Program Effectiveness

20 February 2010

Instructor: Terry Mathis, CEO, ProAct Safety

http://www.asse.org/education/

Abstract: What gets measured gets managed. This statement is true in safety. The Balanced Scorecard System is a management system that can provide a new approach to measurement of safety program effectiveness. The Balanced Scorecard system provides a clear vision of the status of an operation and translates that vision into actions that facilitate identification of improvement in safety results. Using this system, you will learn to organize benchmarks in four perspective categories, learning and growth, business process, customer and financial. Using these four perspectives, you will learn to establish metrics that can be collected and analyzed on a continual basis to achieve a more meaningful metric for measurement of safety improvements. Learn to:

·         Define the Balanced Scorecard management system and describe its application to safety management

·         Implement the Balanced Scorecard management system to measure the effectiveness of your safety and health program

2010 Industrial Minerals Technology Workshop

Topic: Behavior-Based Safety’s Role in a Mine’s Safety Culture

Date: 23 February 2010

Speaker: Shawn M. Galloway, President and Chief Operating Officer, ProAct Safety

http://www.ima-na.org/

Abstract: Behavior-Based Safety is often a misunderstood tool. It is not the preverbal silver bullet, nor is every mining environment ready for it. What leads to success in one mine could be problematic for another, because no two mines have the same culture. Understanding and enhancing your culture is the first step towards sustained excellence in safety. This presentation discovers the opportunities to customize and apply site-specific advanced behavioral and cultural principles to safety. Join us in exploring the elements necessary to internally achieve and sustain safety excellence by focusing on your most effective sustainability tool, your culture.

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Lean Behavior-Based Safety Internal Consultant Workshop

23-25 February 2010

Instructors: Terry Mathis, CEO, ProAct Safety & Shawn M. Galloway, President and Chief Operating Officer, ProAct Safety

http://www.proactsafety.com/workshopbbsinternalconsultant

Abstract: This intensive, highly interactive workshop will fully qualify attendees to return to their companies prepared to design a customized plan to strategically implement a Behavior-Based Safety process.  This approach is an option for companies who want to maximize their own ability to implement Behavior-Based Safety while minimizing outside costs.

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Greetings everyone from my home in The Woodlands, Texas. This year I begin to not only promise to provide weekly audio files to help you improve safety; I will be publishing monthly videos as well. We will keep these videos under 10 minutes in length so they can be used in quick meetings. This month I ask the question, do you have a personal safety focus for 2010? Many of us make New Year’s Resolutions, but what will we focus on in 2010 to help us stay safe?

I would like to encourage you to consider watching what you are standing on, climbing on and walking on this year. In many countries the number one cause of accidental death in the homes, are slips, trips and falls. There are two life precautions that can help prevent this from occurring to you: Eyes on path/work and Footing. Below are some examples.

1.       Eyes on path/work (keep eyes in direction of travel and task)

a.       When walking keep eyes on path of travel. (i.e. looking behind while backing up)

b.      When operating mobile equipment always scan ahead for pedestrians & obstructions.

c.       Maintain focus on surroundings, body position, and equipment when performing a task

2.       Footing (stay on designated walkways/3-point contact on stairs)

a.       When walking up/down stairs use handrails and take one step at a time.

b.      When climbing up/down ladders use 3-point contact and keep body facing toward ladder

c.       Maintain 3-point contact when (getting on/off a equipment)

What are some other examples you can think of? Consider sharing these with a group of people and ask them to identify examples of how these precautions could help them remain safe.

Thank you again for tuning in and let’s keep 2010 a safe year!

Warm regards,

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety

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Greetings, this podcast recorded in Avon Lake, OH. “Most safety culture improvement initiatives either start at the top or the bottom of the organizational structure: executive coaching for senior managers or workforce teambuilding for the rank and file. Some experts believe that safety begins with leadership, others stress that worker behavior has the most impact on safety.   Both approaches can achieve improvement. However, there are organizations with good reasons to delay these approaches and start safety improvement in the middle.” – Terry L. Mathis.

In the August 2009 edition of EHS Today, Terry Mathis, the Founder and CEO of our firm ProAct Safety, published an article that I would like to share with you today. If you would like to see the actual article, please visit EHS Today’s website at www.EHSToday.com or you can find it on our website at www.ProActSafety.com along with a lot of other free content to improve your safety focus.

Thanks and have a great week!

Shawn Galloway

ProAct Safety

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Greetings, this podcast recorded in Indianapolis, Indiana. For this week, Terry and I would like to share with you seven principles to consider, when providing training to adults. We will discuss some of the theories and some of the myths, what to ensure and what to avoid. If you would like a copy of a slide that represents the seven principles of Adult Learning please email us. The email address can be found at the end of the podcast.

Have a great week!

Shawn Galloway

ProAct Safety

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Greetings, recording and editing this week from The Woodlands, Texas. The topic this week comes from a subscriber who sent us the following message: “Our company is rolling out a campaign that says, There Are No Accidents! This is creating some disconnect between the union and management with a lot guys thinking that management is out of touch with safety issues. What are your thoughts on this? Do you believe this is true, that there are no accidents?”

This week Terry and I will respond to this question but let me first say that I believe that this message usually is well intended. There are some videos available on the internet that leverages this slogan. Typically the message is positioned to get people to see that all accidents have a prevention opportunity somewhere along the chain of events. The thought is that if you can focus everyone on seeing these prevention points we can often stop the chain of events from resulting in an unplanned outcome. It is often easy to utilize a saying to spread a message as it gives people something to associate their thoughts with. The danger is when posters are hung and slogans are haphazardly used without thoroughly and effectively communicating the message. On another note, please do not forget to visit www.proactsafety.com and click on events to find where we will be speaking at or the dates for one of our public workshops. 

Have a great week!

Shawn Galloway

ProAct Safety

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Intro to Lean Behavior-Based Safety

Length: 60 Minutes

Host:           Shawn Galloway, President & COO - ProAct Safety

Presenter:     Terry Mathis, Founder & CEO - ProAct Safety

What You Will Learn:

1. What is Lean BBS^®? - Lean is not just less
2. Why this approach has become the most successful in the industry
3. What options are available for Behavior-Based Safety in today’s lean atmosphere
4. How Lean Behavior-Based Safety works in logistically challenged organizations
5. The typical results that a company should expect
6. How to identify if your company is not ready for Behavior-Based Safety
7. How to ensure success and trust with represented workforces (Labor Unions)
8. Why customization is vital if sustainability is your goal.
9. Existing processes - critical questions and easy to spot waste
10. What it takes to ensure success of a Lean Behavior-Based Safety approach

Lean Behavior-Based Safety is based on the philosophy of achieving faster accident reductions with the minimum internal resources and external cost requirements, ultimately achieving a more sustainable internalized continuous improvement process.

Borrowing proven techniques from Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and experiences from over 1000 successful implementations, Lean Behavior-Based Safety has proven to be the most efficient and practical approach to an already effective theoretical process.

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Greetings from Indianapolis, Indiana. “Because of the reactive approach to measuring and managing safety prevalent in the world today, the true definition of safety success has been obscured. The surface definition of safety success on most safety professionals’ minds is simply a reduction in the failure rate. We have been so busy avoiding failure that we need to remind ourselves what success looks like. The word “success” tends to surface every time the accident rates go down, but does the lack of accidents really equate to safety success?”  - Terry Mathis

In September’s edition of EHS today another of Terry’s articles was published. We received some great feedback from the article, including a request to record it here for the subscribers of Safety Culture Excellence. So the podcast this week is a reading of the recent article “What Does Safety Success Look Like? by Terry Mathis. It was published on the 1st of September, 2008 in EHS Today. The online article can be found at:  http://ehstoday.com/safety/management/safety_success/index.html

If you are listening to this file through streaming media and would like to download it for later use, all files and other ideas to help you bring positive improvement in your safety culture can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com or you can visit our consulting firm’s website at www.proactsafety.com

Thanks and have a great week!

Shawn Galloway

ProAct Safety 

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Terry Mathis (Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety) lead an online webinar recently for Occupational Health & Safety titled “Building Your Bridge to Safety Culture Excellence” Is an excellent safety culture the chicken or the egg? How do you truly weave safety into the fabric of cultural activities? How do you integrate safety initiatives so they synergize rather than compete for resources? How do you ultimately build the bridge between your current results and true world-class excellence? “The last frontiers of safety excellence can only be crossed by organizations with mature and highly functioning safety cultures.” – Terry Mathis

This seminar explores the integration of cultural formation in the overall picture of safety excellence efforts. The webinar will provide actionable strategies gained from experience innovating safety excellence with more than 125 organizations and 900 global engagements. Learn how to define the tools, the processes, the timetables, and the range of options for creating a truly exceptional safety culture, which produces truly excellent safety results.

The webinar can now be found and played on demand by navigating here: http://ohsonline.com/Webcasts/2008/09/Proact.aspx

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Have a safe week everyone! Visit http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com for the audio file. Have a great week! – Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety

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